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Glitches plague free Evi app for Android
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Appolicious – The free Evi app for Android eluded me for days while I was testing it out. Every time I tried to search using the app, it told me all circuits were busy. But the super friendly voice assured me that they were working to correct the issue in the near future. In this day and age, a few days are a lifetime.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 10:15 pm
Android Alternatives to Apple’s Siri Personal Assistant
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ContributorNetwork – When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple’s iPhone 4S was Siri, an “intelligent assistant” which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google’s Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 9:52 pm
TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report
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Reuters – TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron’s financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 8:28 pm
Canalys: Smartphones outship PCs for first time in 2011. Or did they?
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Appolicious – Take a break from Android-iPhone wars for a moment and focus on another battle smartphones vs. PCs.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 4:30 pm
WillCall and other iPhone apps are changing the ticket game
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Appolicious – The other day, TechCrunch tipped us off to a hot new last-minute ticket-selling app called WillCall. The app currently lets users choose their purchases from a select list of concerts, but will soon expand to include tickets to plays and symphonies as well. WillCall is currently only available in San Francisco but will expand to Los Angeles and New York City in March.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 2:00 pm
Singapore’s Artivision says in tie-up with Intel
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Reuters – Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 11:03 am
Celebs suit up for DirecTV Beach Bowl
(AP)
AP – Deion Sanders said he wasn’t worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 9:11 pm
For Facebook ‘Hacker Way’ is way of life
(AP)
AP – Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 4:12 pm
Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site
(AP)
AP – A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government’s website and shut it down by overloading it.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 2:18 pm
Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call
(AP)
AP – Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 5:04 am
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‘Lazy Cow’ syndrome spoof video becomes internet hit
A spoof video of an interview with a woman suffering from “Lazy Cow” syndrome, claiming thousands in benefits and needing heroin and cocaine treatment has become an internet hit.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 1:40 pm
Kindle Fire owners ‘less satisfied’ than Apple iPad owners
Amazon Kindle Fire owners are less satisfied than those who own an Apple iPad, according to a new survey.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 8:00 am
Klout may have struck lucky with a Twitter campaign
Klout has its critics but offering retail discounts based on its social index is a real route to making money? not that the company has had anything to do with it.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 7:00 am
Facebook ‘makes it harder for brands to advertise for free’
Facebook has gradually been making it more difficult for advertisers to promote their goods for free on the site, in the lead up to its stock market offering, according to a report.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 8:00 am
Sony: can a new CEO save the struggling tech giant?
Sir Howard Stringer has stepped down as Sony’s chief executive. Can his replacement help the company recover from a $2bn loss, asks Matt Warman.
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 7:00 am
Facebook dominated by ‘power users’
The majority of Facebook activity is carried out by a minority of users, according to a new study.
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 3:30 pm
‘Anonymous’ hackers intercept conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard on how to deal with hackers
Call between Scotland Yard and FBI about threat of hacking intercepted and published by ‘Anonymous’.
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 2:47 pm
‘Anonymous’ hackers intercept conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard
The computer hacking group Anonymous has hacked into a telephone conference and posted it on the internet.
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 2:47 pm
Microsoft Windows Phone 8 details leak
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 will support NFC and content sharing with computers and tablets, according to a leaked video.
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 1:00 pm
BT to offer ‘ultrafast’ broadband
Broadband speeds of up to 300Mbit/s could be possible across Britain, BT claims.
Posted on 3 February 2012 | 11:24 am
